Accidentally Betrothed

round her like a thousand heavy hands, pulling her down. Panic surged through her chest as she flailed, trying to kick to the surf

, and she could feel the darkness pressing in on the edges of her mind. Just as her last bubble of air escaped,

ything we

mth spreading over her as if the sun were drying her soaked body. Slowly, she opened her eyes, blinking away t

mbled, her voice

on she had never seen before. "I told you, don't call me that," he sa

he vibrant blue she remembered, and the scent of the air was thicker, fragrant with spices and earth. She looked down a

foreign even to her own ears. She looked at Alexander's face, searching for s

thought she knew. And as she tried to comprehend it all, the dizziness